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Stepney 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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TABLE V.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1910.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Cause of Death.Under 1 Week.1-2 Weeks.2-3 Weeks.3-4 Weeks.Total under 1 Month.1-2 Months.2-3 Months.3-4 Months.4-5 Months.5-6 Months.6-7 Months.7-8 Months.8-9 Months. __(9-10 Months.10-1 I Monrhs.11-12 Months.Total Deaths unnder One Year.
AllCauses.Certified37101556724191715171610711138224
Uncertified••................••••......••••..
Common Infectious Diseases.Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles..........1..........11....36
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)..................1............1
Whooping Cough................1..1111....5
Diarrhœal Diseases.Diarrhœa, all forms....11223434112..2226
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis, Uastro-enteritis..........21..12......2....8
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh............11............1..3
"Wasting Diseases.Premature Birth2331..2711..................29
Congenital Defects3..1..431..................8
Injury at Birth31....4......................4
Want of Breast-milk, Starvation..................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus3261126553423..1344
Tuberculous Diseases.Tuberculous Meningitis..........................1....1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenteriua..........12..1..1......1..6
Other Tuberculous Diseases..............1................1
Other Causes.Erysipelas..................................
Syphilis......111..11..............4
Rickets........................1..113
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..21..3..........21..1....7
Convulsions111..3..111121112..14
Bronchitis1..124111..l..........210
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia111..33223362141..30
Suffocation, overlying1......1311................6
Other Causesl..2..3..••111......2..8
371015567241917151716107 11138224

Births ill the year
legitimate, 1,831
illegitimate, 30
Deaths from all Causes at all Ages, 807
Pomilation. estimated to middle of 1910 54.071
Deaths iu the year of
legitimate infants, 209
i illegitimate infants, 15